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[Veritas-bu] Vault question [unmarking vaulted images]

2004-04-15 12:01:06
Subject: [Veritas-bu] Vault question [unmarking vaulted images]
From: rob AT worman DOT org (Rob Worman)
Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2004 11:01:06 -0500
First off, an important correction:  vault doesn't explicitly "mark" 
an image as having been duplicated or ejected.  Vault instead relies 
on the normal netbackup image/media attributes that apply whenever an 
image is duplicated or a tape is ejected.

to answer your questions:

1) vault uses two criteria to decide to ignore already-vaulted images:

(a) if there are no tapes holding this image in the robot (as 
determined by the tape's volume group), the image won't be 
re-duplicated OR re-ejected.

OR

(b)if this image has at least one fragment on a tape that is in the 
destination volume pool specified in the vault profile's 
"duplication" tab, the image won't be re-duplicated.  (BUT the tape 
holding that image could still be re-ejected, see previous item)

2) as above, vault doesn't really "mark" tapes the way you are describing.

3) I think so.  FP3 was an especially buggy release for vault.  :-/ 
see also http://support.veritas.com/docs/253385

HTH
rob

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1) Does anyone know if it is possible to unmark an image that has 
been vaulted so that that image may be re-vaulted?
2) Does anyone know if said marking of a vaulted image is done at the 
begining of the vault session or at the [successfull] end of a vault 
session?

3) Is it worth moving from FP3 to FP6 for the improved vault fixes & logging?

Thanks in advance everyone ....

Cheers

Kev.

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